APA Formatting
Each assignment should have a cover page. You can find an IPU New Zealand assignment cover page template in the Student Information section on Moodle.
Use Times New Roman or Calibri, and font size 12 for the text of your assignment.
Use 1.5 or double spacing (check with your lecturer).
Your left and right hand margins should be set at 2.5 cm.
You should number the pages of your assignment, excluding the cover page. These are generally part of the footer.
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Headings should be boldface and in font size 14 or 16
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Subheadings should be in font size 12 bold or italics, (the most common form is boldface)
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Subheadings are not underlined in APA 7
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There are two options to indicate the start of a new paragraph:
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Indent to indicate the start of a new paragraph (7 spaces /1.27 cm). Using the tab key is best.
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Using block style, insert a space between each paragraph (i.e. do not indent).
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In the APA system, footnotes are used to give extra information which the author feels would disturb the flow of the writing, but these are not used for citations (check with your lecturer).
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Head each appendix with the word Appendix (centered) above the appendix title.
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Where there is more than one appendix, label each with a capital letter (e.g. Appendix A, Appendix B, etc.), according to the order they appear in the body of the paper
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Begin each appendix on a new page.
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Attach appendices after the reference list.
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Continue page numbering into the appendices
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